Posted on 09/21/2021 3:32:53 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Accra, Ghana — In 2019, Ghana's president invited African descendants in the diaspora to mark the "Year of Return," commemorating 400 years since the first Africans arrived in the colony now known as Virginia on a slave ship. The invite prompted record tourism to Ghana, and an increase in Americans who applied for visas to stay.
But it was the events in the United States in 2020, and the Black Lives Matter movement, that drove a real surge in people looking to move out of America and into Africa.
The Elmina Castle on Ghana's Atlantic coast is more than 5,000 miles from American shores, but the five-century old structure occupies a particularly dark place in U.S. history. Hundreds of years ago, it was a central trading hub where African people from around the continent were sold into slavery.
As the U.S. continues to confront its racist past, Ghana is turning that history upside down, and welcoming Black Americans back home.
Sonjiah Davis was the epitome of Washington cool. She was a well-connected, successful therapist trained to deal with emotional health. And yet, living in the capital of the United States, she says she was constantly looking over her shoulder.
"I was living what people would consider the American dream," she told Patta. "I was educated, professional. I had friends. I was a socialite… but I never felt safe."
Davis believes trauma is embedded in her DNA, from the transatlantic slave trade to the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 that saw some of her family displaced from their homes.
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Bye Bye, brothers and sisters. I’m thinking you’ll be SORRY!
SMH. As if slavery started 400 years ago.
Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
Ghana has an open immigration policy for any American blacks that wants citizenship.
Saw a few videos last year about them returning to Africa.......they seem to love it there. Wish more would go frankly. I think they’d be happier.
Ban them from coming back.
So we have what, 5 black Americans moving to Africa...and 15,000 black Haitians flooding into the U.S. Yeah, this is such a terrible place for blacks to live.
No comment.
Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame.
Do they have a GoFundMe page?
Blacks for the most part were born in the western world and completely rejected it. Since the 50s there has been a split. 70 years ago the black family and the white family were indistinguishable. They had the same values, the same beliefs, the same love of country. Not anymore.
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AMF
Not one mention of the Ashanti tribe that did the selling of black slaves from what was then not Ghana. The article is just a hate piece against America.
I wonder how many Ghanians would love to emigrate to the USA and become Americans?
$10,588.00
A quick Google search tells us the median income in Ghana is $10,588.00
Hell, you’d do better on welfare here in the states rather than move to Ghana.
This article - like most CBS articles - is BS.
“Why some Black Americans are leaving the U.S. to reclaim their “destiny” in Ghana”
We’d all probably be better off there than in one of our filthy big democrat cities.
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